Golden Knights Garner First Trophy — Commissioner’s Award For Team Launch

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

 

The NHL season is not quite over yet, but the first-year Vegas Golden Knights have already won their first National Hockey League award.

 

There’s something called the “Commissioner’s Award” and it was handed out for the first time this week to the Golden Knights for the team’s launch that has the club in first place in its division and home attendance averaging 103.6 percent of capacity after 33 home dates at T-Mobile Arena (fourth highest attendance capacity in the NHL.)

 

Team President Kerry Bubolz led a contingent of Golden Knights business staffers  to accept the Commissioner’s Award from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

 

The Golden Knights launched their regular season with an emotional first home game Oct. 10 remembering the Oct. 1 Strip shooting victims and have received high marks for their in-game entertainment features and cameos by Las Vegas acts such as Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group.

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The team plays the New Jersey Devils Wednesday night at 7 p.m.

 

Bubolz and his staffers received the award at the NHL’s team business meetings at the Bellagio on the Strip this week.

 

During the business awards ceremony, other NHL teams won accolades called “Stanleys” for various marketing and sales promotion programs. Clubs winning business Stanleys were the Penguins, Lightning, Capitals and Red Wings.

 

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